Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon

HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Yeah. This sounds a lot like some PM type thinks they’re gonna get rid of control panel, and they just don’t know what all is actually in there.

  And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

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  • cheddar@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think that the PM is wrong. They absolutely can get rid of the control panel. It’s the user who will suffer ✌

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I wonder if there would be a way to “embed” those old panel applets into the new settings somehow.

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    • jbk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet they at most remove control.exe or make it open the Settings app, but still allow launching old vendor .cpl items just like they already can be opened in Control Panel.

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      • gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is already implemented on a lot of the settings pages on 11.

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  • lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And not to mention the custom control panel applets hanging around out there from who-knows-what vendors.

    AMD FirePro and Catalyst users are going to probably stay on an older version of the OS, considering most of those users are going to be educational institutions, engineering workshops, makerspaces/hackerspaces etc.

    Can’t think of any other vendor products that integrated quite as much into the legacy control panel area

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    • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m thinking of highly niche industrial and embedded products who are likely to be left behind.

      A major traditional selling point for Windows has always been the backwards compatibility.

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• throws_lemy@lemmy.nz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s M$ intention, to hide some settings from users and to lose control of Windows.

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  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right, I forgot, MS doesn’t want you to have control what programs are doing or how your computer works. Corporate way or…linux.

    I may be technologically challenged but Microsoft has been steadily selling me on linux ever since windows 10.

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    • aniki@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Linux is just straight up easier to use than an unfucked windows.

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      • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        See, that may be the case. Or it might not be. It’s a risk vz reward right now. I am not good with computers and have had my PC, laptop, phone and smart watch, inexplicably break, get stuck on boot and had to have them repaired. I just know my mistakes are easier to screw up my computer and data on linux. So the worse MS gets, the more I am willing to risk it.

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• SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s probably all in the registry somewhere.

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• stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if you’re talking about the windows 10 or windows 11 version of the settings app?

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  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. I have win 10 and 11 devices. They both lack certain options and I’ve had to go around them, like using control panel. In this case only the win 11 device is at risk of getting much worse.

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